Neither opening seems to burn with that hard, gemlike flame.
"They want to cook their meals over Pater's hard gemlike flame and light their cigarettes at it".
Like many in his generation, Wilde was determined to follow Pater's urging "to burn always with [a] hard, gemlike flame".
But when he comments that "The Power of Positive Thinking" burns with a hard, gemlike flame, I can only cry that he is robbing Pater to paw Peale.
For the most part, my feelings about him I silently conceal, But when he comments that "The Power of Positive Thinking" burns with a hard, gemlike flame, I can only cry that he is robbing Pater to paw Peale.
Moreau exudes such a hard, blue flame of defiance - she is beautiful still - that it is clear to passing shoppers that she is someone significant, although who, exactly, they aren't quite sure.
He has scribbled a quote from the Victorian critic Walter Pater on the back of the speaker stack, calling on us to live always in a hard, gemlike flame of ecstasy.
He smelled fear in the dark, rotting jungle mud where he had fought as a soldier in the Philippines, in the blood, shit and slobber of the Chicago stockyards, but also at Washington parties, among his own stupid bouts of tongue-tiedness and circumlocution, as "the hard gemlike flame of bourbon" burned through him.
Bad King Richard in doublet and hose is a devilish premonition of Johnny Rotten in his torn black suit coat and skinny tie, rolling his eyes and his R's, pronouncing anarchist to almost rhyme with antichrist and burning with a hard, gemlike flame of intelligence and rage.
